Machine fob shelling cokm



JOSEPH G. BALDWIN, OF STAUN'ION, VIRGINIA.

MACHINE FOR SHELLING- CORN.v

Specificatioh'of Letters Patent No. 45, dated October 11, 1836.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JosnrH G. BALDWIN, of Staunton, in the county ofAugusta and State of Virginia, have invented an Improvement in theConstruction of Machines for Shelling Corn, and that the following is afull and exact description thereof.

The machine which I hve improved isv of that kind in which the shellingis effected by the revolution of a vertical cast iron disk having teethor small protuberances on one of its faces, between which, and anelastic piece of wood or other material the corn is made to pass.

The frame of this machine may be varied in its form, and the disk may bedriven by a whirl, and band or by gearing as may be preferred in threeparts.

I do not claim to have made any improvement but limit myself in thisparticular to the manner in which I construct that part of the machinewhich receives the ears to be shelled and bear them up against therevolving disk until the operation is completed. In front of therevolving disk I make a fixture of any suitable material preferring itto be in the form of a perforated plate of cast-iron extending acrossthe whole diameter of the disk, and reaching up to its center, the upperedge of the piece serving to receive one of the gudgeons of the disk.This fixture or plate stands at such distance from the disk as to allowthe feeding in the ears between them, and partitions project from it soas to come nearly into con tact with the teeth, these partitions formingtwo, three or any convenient number of troughs in which the ears arereceived, and in passing through which they are shelled,- a steel springforms the back of each of these troughs being attached by the upper

